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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

The Aerospace Industry. The aerospace industry has quality assurance, but calls it product assurance, which works in tandem with project management and engineering to avoid catastrophic failures that have a human cost. The Software Industry.

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The Complete History of Agile Software Development

Agilemania

In the early 1990s, PC computing began to rise in organizations, but software development faced a hurdle. At that time, people used to call this crisis the “application delivery lag” or “the application development crisis.” Working software over comprehensive documentation.

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Project Management Guidelines (Part 1) - What We Can Learn From Project Failures

Inloox

" Probably the most famous of all management laws is attributed to American military pilot and aerospace engineer Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. " Larry Constantine is a software engineer and designer who pioneered the Structured Design approach to software development.

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How to Make a CPM Schedule: CPM Scheduling Basics

ProjectManager.com

The critical path method is widely used in the transportation market, but it can apply to construction, aerospace and defense, software development, research, product development, engineering and plant maintenance projects, just to name a few.

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Applying the heuristics of “How Big Things Get Done” to adaptive delivery

Kiron Bondale

construction, mining, aerospace), it is tempting to assume that these heuristics are only relevant to projects delivered with a predictive approach. Get your team right : The first value statement in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” And as Prof.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Private Sector Project Manager Selection The birth of modern-day project management is most frequently attributed to the engineering community, mainly aerospace and defense. Client/Stakeholder Collaboration In the early years of growth, the aerospace and defense contractors were marketing- and sales-driven companies.

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Reflection and Takeaways on Agility from the SMC-IT 2018 Space Mission Design conference

The IIL Blog

as a keynote speaker, I opened the conference with “Scrum to the Stars” which looked back into aviation history and to the future of innovation in aerospace, and how Scrum methodologies have been, and will continue to be effective tools. In essence, Scrum was there at the start of aerospace exploration. Representing Scrum, Inc.